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voices in my head
Personal blog · cpbotha.net · on HN as cpbothaprogrammingsecurityproductivity
voices in my head is a personal blog at cpbotha.net about programming, security and productivity. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Android security in 2016 is a mess”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite this blog's posts on email wrapping in Mutt and Thunderbird, a note-taking strategy, and a shoelace knot, as sources or related reading. None judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Android security in 2016 is a mess3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-27
- Note-Taking Strategy 20193 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-09-23
- Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-08
- ThunderBird support of RFC 3676 format=flowed is half-broken2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-27
What Hacker News says?
I know about format=flowed. But does that actually solve the problem? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20514314 > The suggestion to use `format=flowed` doesn’t help, as the standard is ill-supported: https://fastmail.blog/2016/12/17/format-flowed/ I’ve researched the issue far and wide and the only way to have responsive, nicely wrapped emails is using HTML. https://cpbotha.net/2016/09/27/thunderbird-support-of-…
Comment linking /2016/09/27/thunderbird-support-of-rfc-3676-formatflowed-is-half-broken/
on “Mutt email client 25 years old”Submitted Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail as a story · 649 points
HN discussionMy whole system, minus the Apple Pencil bits, is described here: https://cpbotha.net/2019/09/21/note-taking-strategy-2019/ In short: - Emacs OrgMode with a specific setup as the core of everything. - I store interesting web-pages as PDFs on my local drive, currently synced using Dropbox. - Academic articles go in Zotero, with PDFs on local drive, synced using Dropbox. - On mobile, I use the Dropbox app to create and…
Comment linking /2019/09/21/note-taking-strategy-2019/
on “Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?”Submitted Android security in 2016 is a mess as a story · 295 points
HN discussionFor the record, on the front page of HN right now: https://cpbotha.net/2016/11/27/android-security-in-2016-is-a...
Comment linking /2016/11/27/android-security-in-2016-is-a-mess/
on “How Satya Nadella is taking on Apple and Amazon”Submitted Dear USA, my data has left your building as a story · 256 points
HN discussionRelated: https://cpbotha.net/2019/09/21/note-taking-strategy-2019/
Comment linking /2019/09/21/note-taking-strategy-2019/
on “Ask HN: How do you organize document digests / personal knowledge?”Submitted Let’s replace Twitter with something much better as a story · 227 points
HN discussionI learnt about this knot 16 years ago from a comment on cpbotha's blog : https://cpbotha.net/2010/04/07/weekly-head-voices-20-a-lamar... It has changed my life. I was also part of mountain rescue at the time, and nobody in the team knew about it. Now everyone swears by it. So if you're part of any kind of first responder team - please tell your colleagues about this knot!
Comment linking /2010/04/07/weekly-head-voices-20-a-lamarckian-knot/
on “Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot”Submitted Deep Work: A welcome kick in the butt as a story · 223 points
HN discussionSubmitted PGP Never Gonna Give You Up as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why it’s healthy that Microsoft and Google are eating Apple’s lunch as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Android security in 2016 is a mess as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Note-Taking Strategy 2019 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startups vs. Academic Research Groups: FIGHT as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving 18 years of this personal blog from Wordpress to Hugo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ThunderBird support of RFC 3676 format=flowed is half-broken as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Closure expressions (anonymous functions) in Swift as a story · 1 points
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